Vegan Cream Puffs (v, gf, df)

Sweet, fluffy and creamy, this recipe is everything dreamy!

Ingredients

• ½ cup hemp milk
• ¼ cup Olivani (or a dairy free butter of your choice)
• 1 tbsp golden syrup
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• ⅛ tsp salt
• Flour mix (⅓ cup tapioca flour, ¼ cup rice flour, 1 tsp guar gum)
• ½ tsp baking powder
• Egg replacer (3 tbsp room temp water, 1 ½ tbsp tapioca flour, 1 tbsp baking powder, ¼ tsp guar gum, ⅛ tsp cream of tartar)
• 350g Raglan Food Co coconut yoghurt – your choice of flavour
• 100g Dark Ghana Whittaker’s chocolate

Method

1. Preheat oven to 200°C. Line a baking tray with baking paper.
2. Place hemp milk, Olivani, golden syrup, vanilla and salt into a small saucepan.
3. Place on stove top at a medium heat. Mix until butter is softened but NOT fully melted.
4. Sieve flour mix ingredients into a bowl, and add in the baking powder.
5. Beat butter mix into dry ingredients. 
6. Add egg replacement ingredients into a small bowl and whisk until combined (it should resemble whipped egg whites).
7. Beat egg replacement into pastry mix (the mix should now look like buttercream icing).
8. Scoop tablespoon measurements of mixture onto the lined tray (or use a piping bag and pipe in a circular shape).
9. Place into your preheated oven and bake for 20 minutes.
10. After the 20 minutes is up, reduce the oven temperature to 180°C and bake for a further 5 minutes.
11. Turn the oven off without opening the door and allow the puffs to sit for a minimum of 30 minutes. This is to stop them from sinking.
12. Remove from the oven and allow to cool completely.
13. Fill a piping bag (that has a small circular nozzle) with your chosen coconut yoghurt flavour. Cut a small slice in the bottom of your cream puffs to allow for the cream filling. 
14.  Insert the tip of the piping bag into the slit you’ve created, then pipe in the filling. You will be able to feel the puff filling up – stop when you start to see it coming out the bottom.
15. Melt your chocolate and spread it over the top of each puff and place in fridge for at least half an hour to chill.
16. Make sure to store your puffs in the fridge, they will last for 2-3 days. Enjoy!